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What! he who is obedient during hours of the night, prostrating himself and standing, takes care of the hereafter and hopes for the mercy of his Lord! Say: Are those who know and those who do not know alike? Only the men of understanding are mindful.

Therefore keep waiting for the day when the heaven shall bring an evident smoke, / That shall overtake men; this is a painful punishment.

Therefore hold fast to that which has been revealed to you; surely you are on the right path.

So have We made it easy in your tongue that they may be mindful.

So leave them plunging into false discourses and sporting until they meet their day which they are threatened with.

O My servants! there is no fear for you this day, nor shall you grieve.

He was naught but a servant on whom We bestowed favor, and We made him an example for the children of Israel.

Or He makes them of both sorts, male and female; and He makes whom He pleases barren; surely He is the Knowing, the Powerful.

Or have We given them a book before it so that they hold fast to it? / Nay! they say: We found our fathers on a course, and surely we are guided by their footsteps.

Or have they settled an affair? Then surely We are the settlers.

Or do they say: He has forged a lie against Allah? But if Allah pleased, He would seal your heart; and Allah will blot out the falsehood and confirm the truth with His words; surely He is Cognizant of what is in the breasts.

Surely We purified them by a pure quality, the keeping m mind of the (final) abode.

Surely they who deviate from the right way concerning Our communications are not hidden from Us. What! is he then who is cast into the fire better, or he who comes safe on the day of resurrection? Do what you like, surely He sees what you do.

Whoever desires the gain of the hereafter, We will give him more of that again; and whoever desires-- the gain of this world, We give him of it, and in the hereafter he has no portion.

To this then go on inviting, and go on steadfastly on the right way as you are commanded, and do not follow their low desires, and say: I believe in what Allah has revealed of the Book, and I am commanded to do justice between you: Allah is our Lord and your Lord; we shall have our deeds and you shall have your deeds; no plea need there be (now) between us and you: Allah will gather us together, and to Him is the return.

What! as for him then against whom the sentence of chastisement is due: What! can you save him who is in the fire? / But (as for) those who are careful of (their duty to) their Lord, they shall have high places, above them higher places, built (for them), beneath which flow rivers; (this is) the promise of Allah: Allah will not fail in (His) promise.

What! shall We then turn away the reminder from you altogether because you are an extravagant people? / And how many a prophet have We sent among the ancients.

And those who, when great wrong afflicts them, defend themselves.

And those who. shun the great sins and indecencies, and whenever they are angry they forgive.

And they shall have no friends to help them besides Allah; and-- whomsoever Allah makes err, he shall have no way.

And they shall call out: O Malik! let your Lord make an end of us. He shall say: Surely you shall tarry.

And they assign to Him a part of His servants; man, to be sure, is clearly ungrateful.

And We are not unjust to them, but they themselves were unjust.

And whoever is patient and forgiving, these most surely are actions due to courage.

And when Ibrahim said to his father and his people: Surely I am clear of what you worship, / Save Him Who created me, for surely He will guide me.

And were it not that all people had been a single nation, We would certainly have assigned to those who disbelieve in the Beneficent God (to make) of silver the roofs of their houses and the stairs by which they ascend.

There shall be sent round to them golden bowls and drinking-cups and therein shall be what their souls yearn after and (wherein) the eyes shall delight, and you shall abide therein.

On thrones decorated, / Reclining on them, facing one another.

So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates. That (shall be so); and if Allah had pleased He would certainly have exacted what is due from them, but that He may try some of you by means of others; and (as for) those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will by no means allow their deeds to perish.

Allah it is Who revealed the Book with truth, and the balance, and what shall make you know that haply the hour be nigh? / Those who do not believe in it would hasten it on, and those who believe are in fear from it, and they know that it is the truth. Now most surely those who dispute obstinately concerning the hour are in a great error.

They shall call therein for every fruit in security; / They shall not taste therein death except the first death, and He will save them from the punishment of the hell, / A grace from your Lord; this is the great achievement.

This is what you are promised for the day of reckoning.

Then they turned to themselves and said: Surely you yourselves are the unjust; / Then they were made to hang down their heads: Certainly you know that they do not speak.

Then he called upon his Lord: These are a guilty people.

Then when they displeased Us, We inflicted a retribution on them, so We drowned them all together, / And We made them a precedent and example to the later generations.

That is of which Allah gives the good news to His servants, (to) those who believe and do good deeds. Say: I do not ask of you any reward for it but love for my near relatives; and whoever earns good, We give him more of good therein; surely Allah is Forgiving, Grateful.

(The warner) said: What! even if I bring to you a better guide than that on which you found your fathers? They said: Surely we are unbelievers in that with which you are sent.

How many of the gardens and fountains have they left! / And cornfields and noble places! / And goodly things wherein they rejoiced; / Thus (it was), and We gave them as a heritage to another people.

Hearken to your Lord before there comes the day from Allah for which there shall be no averting; you shall have no refuge on that day, nor shall it be yours to make a denial.

You will see the unjust fearing on account of what they have earned, and it must befall them; and those who believe and do good shall be in the meadows of the gardens; they shall have what they please with their Lord: that is the great grace.

And most surely they were with Us, of the elect, the best.

And most surely it is a reminder for you and your people, and you shall soon be questioned.

And most surely it is a knowledge of the hour, therefore have no doubt about it and follow me: this is the right path.

And surely it is in the original of the Book with Us, truly elevated, full of wisdom.

And he made it a word to continue in his posterity that they may return.

And away from them shall go what they called upon before, and they shall know for certain that there is no escape for them.

And if We please, We could make among you angels to be successors in the land.

And if We make man taste mercy from Us, then take it off from him, most surely he is despairing, ungrateful.

And if Allah had pleased He would surely have made them a single community, but He makes whom He pleases enter into His mercy, and the unjust it is that shall have no guardian or helper.